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I suddenly heard a loud, but annoying noise, my eyes were still shut tight and I can feel that I’m lying in a bed of flowers, it was soft and comfortable, as the pleasant scent soothed my entire body, prompting me to relax a bit more, so I decided to ignore the noise.

“HOOT! HOOT!”

There it is again! That annoying noise, okay calm down, calm down, if I ignore it long enough maybe it will disappear, having thought of that, and took a deep breath, I continued to relax.

“HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT!”

What the hell, not only did the noise became louder, but it is beginning to drive me insane, my body is becoming agitated and I can feel my sweat dripping from my entire body. Okay, if I hear that annoying noise one more time, I will-

“HEY! WAKE UP ALREADY!” What the, a female voice? Now where did that come from? I tried to open my eyes but I can’t seem to do so, even my body couldn’t move either.

“IF YOU DON’T WAKE UP SOON, YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!”

Suddenly, my whole body jerked by that powerful and scary voice as memories began to flood in my head, making me remember when somebody pulled my feet and dragged me from my bed while I was having a peaceful nap, and crushed my body with a powerful hug out of nowhere.

“OKAY, I’M UP ALREADY!” I suddenly said, my anger before quickly turned to fear as the frightened voice made me sweat even more.

“HURRY UP AND GET CHANGED! YOU DON’T WANT TO BE LATE FOR THE ENROLLMENTS!”

I was relieved since she wasn’t threatening me anymore, but what did she say again? Enrollments? Wait, I remember now! That’s why I couldn’t sleep much, I was thinking about that the entire time, I can still recall what me and my friends had promised to one another.

FLASHBACK

It was Graduation Day, as every student was very excited to have completed their high school year, everyone wore a black toga, along with a weird looking hat. We could see our parents in their respective seats applauding while the others, mostly mothers were weeping. As each of us got our diplomas, we all congratulated each one of us for making it this far and happily shook hands.

As for me and my friends, we made a promise to one another before we all left,

“Hey, all of us will enroll at Alkia University, right? Just like we planned before!”

“Yeah! So we can still hang out with each other!” A girl said.

“Not only that, my Grandpa works there too!” A Boy said.

“Not only its one of the best universities around the world, it gives the best education and low tuition fees! My parents were thrilled when I showed her their flyers.” All of us laughed,

“But too bad, he had to transfer to another school. “ Another girl said.

“Strange, I could remember an incident that happened about a year ago but couldn’t remember the details, but when that happened, he never came back to school, did he?” A boy said.

“Now that you think of it, you’re right.” Another boy said. Everyone became silent for a while.

“Oh well, let’s just hope we can see him next time.” I broke the silence, hoping it would cheer them up.

“Yeah!” Everyone said.

And before we dispersed, I extended my hand with my palms facing downwards and said, “All of us will enroll at Alkia University, promise?”

Everyone smiled and chuckled as they put their hands on top of mine, “Yeah, it’s a promise!” They all shouted.

After our last laugh at the last day of High School, we all said goodbye and returned to our parents who all hugged, congratulated and drove us back home.

END OF FLASHBACK

That was a special day, and I didn’t forget that promise that all of us made, strange, now I suddenly remember him, we only got to know him for a short while, even if he doesn’t talk much, we still made friends with him, then the incident came, although I don’t know really happened, but he suddenly never came to school anymore. But enough of that, I really need to wake up, after gathering enough power, I tried to open my eyes. They slowly opened, everything became white.

I woke up from a dream, I found myself lying in my bed, as I looked at my blanket which covered every part except for my head, I can see yellow colored creatures called Pokémon which were used as designs for my blanket, the Pokémons were identically the same, all of them had two large pointy ears with its tips colored black, it had round, dark brown eyes, a small nose, a mouth and its cheeks were round and colored red, its hands were short but large and its standing on its legs, and its tail is shaped like a cartoon thunderbolt.

“Pikachu”

I mumbled to myself, chuckling after saying that, Pikachu is my favorite pokemon, that’s why I begged my mother to buy this blanket for me. I leapt out from my bed, feeling energized and did a few stretching exercises.

Afterwards, I went to my mirror and stared to myself, I could see my black hair completely standing, but I simply fixed it with my own hands and made it the same hairdo I usually have.

“HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT!”

As soon as I heard that noise, I quickly remembered that it was the same noise that interrupted me when I was having a nice relaxation. I quickly turned around to see where the noise was coming from, only to realize it was only my HootHoot Alarm Clock, I quickly turned it off by tapping the switch on its head. My mother bought this clock especially for my habit in destroying the previous alarm clocks she had bought before.

But this clock is really different than before, unlike from those other alarm clocks before that were made in plastic, this one is made of good-quality metal especially made for any kind of “accidents” it had to go through, like being thrown around, getting mercilessly hammered by any blunt objects like baseball bats, etc.

My mother probably had enough of me having to destroy those alarm clocks she bought, now this thing is practically indestructible, it even had a feature if the impact it had made when it lands was powerful enough, the ringing will increase tenfold, which can wake everyone within a few miles.

I quickly changed my sweaty PJs to my everyday outfit. I wore a hat, with a half – poke ball colored green at its front to cover my messed-up do. A white t-shirt and a black vest with a yellow V-pattern on the chest part to top it off. My favorite navy-blue baggy jeans and my sneakers. I was content with what I wore, who cares about fashion anyway?

I grabbed my luggage where I’ve put my clothes, and other gear, I opened it and checked if I have everything prepared, shirts, underwear, pants, socks, other sanitary equipment, etc. I could still remember what my mother told me to bring:

“Bring your toothbrush and toothpaste and don’t forget to brush.”

“Make sure you brought your underwear with you and don’t forget to change them every day.”

“Here’s your shampoo and soap and make sure you use them while you’re taking a bath, sweetie.”

And that’s only a few of these things she had said to me. Mothers this days, sheesh. I closed my luggage, carried it with my two hands as it was heavy all right and proceeded downstairs to meet my mom who was preparing breakfast at the kitchen.

“Good morning, Ash! Put your luggage by the door and eat your breakfast, and make sure you eat plenty.”

“Sure thing, mom” I happily replied as I quickly sat down, I stared at the food, it was bacon and eggs.

The aroma entered my nostrils and it made me drool, as I wiped the saliva from my mouth, I began to eat quickly, my mother Delia smiled, happy to see his son to be growing to be a fine, young man.

“If you want to, you can have seconds, Ash.” She happily said as she went through the front door,

“When you need me, I’ll be at my garden as always.” Ash looked at het with food still in his mouth, he couldn’t speak so he nodded instead, she smiled as she opened the door. She quickly but quietly put an envelope in his luggage, and proceeded outside.

Oh Ash, you’re so forgetful, but oh well, that’s what mothers are for. She happily thought as she took her straw hat, and water can with her.

“Pika, Pikachu!”

Ash quickly swallowed the food in his mouth, but since the food was not yet chewed completely, he began to choke. Pikachu quickly saw his master in trouble and quickly used a Thunderbolt attack on him, as electricity drove into his body, inflicting pain on every part, but he was able to swallow the food completely.

After a sigh of relief, Ash was alright as Pikachu jumped to his master’s arms and embraced him.

“Pika, pika?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. Thanks Pikachu, you saved me.”

Ash hugged his yellow rodent pokemon tightly but lovingly, as Pikachu cooed in his arms, happy to be praised by his master.

Ash released the hug while Pikachu leapt to his shoulders, as he stared at his partially burnt clothes, but didn’t mind as he sat down and continued to eat what’s left in his plate, he could have seconds if he wanted to, but the electrifying moment he had made him lose his appetite.

After finishing his plate, he placed them at the sink, while Pikachu finished emptying the ketchup bottle with his mouth and started licking his hands, Ash smiled at his Pikachu on how it cute was.

“Are you ready to go, Pikachu?” He called, Pikachu quickly placed the empty ketchup bottle on the table and leapt to his shoulders, and raised one of his arm to the skies.

“Pikachu!” He was raring to go, and Ash too. He stared at the wallclock and his eyes widened,

He screamed as he darted outside with his luggage with him. Pikachu ran alongside him, also fearing that he might not make it in time.

“Bye, Mom I’ll miss you!” As he waved to his mother for only a short while since the load of the luggage was too much on only one arm. Delia heard this and smiled at him.

“Bye Ash, I’ll love you! Don’t forget to brush okay?” She shouted, as Ash sweatdropped when he heard his mom clearly as she continued her gardening
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Ash quickly went to the ferry and was relieved that there were only 3 minutes left till the ferry leaves port. As the guard asked him for his ticket, realization struck him; he completely forgot the very important papers he needs to bring with him that can allow him to enter Alkia University, he reached for his pockets, but came up empty handed. The guard noticed this and sighed,

“Look kid, if you don’t have the ferry ticket to Alkia, I can’t let you in.” The guard said which only made him more nervous than before. He checked everything that were on his clothes, but no ticket. But there was one last thing he had not checked, and that was his luggage.

But Ash doubted that since the last time he had checked, there were no papers in his luggage, but still he opened his luggage while his face was sweating tremendously as he made the biggest mistake he had made in his life.

He slowly opened his luggage while imagining the worst sermons her mother will say to him, but his eyes widened as he saw an envelope containing papers, he quickly scanned each of it and to his surprise, his ticket to Alkia was there.

“Yahoo!” He shouted while hugging Pikachu in his arms.

“Oh thank you, Mom, thank you!” He kissed the ticket for about ten times before showing it to the Guard who was somehow disgusted as he saw saliva kiss marks in the paper but quickly regained his composure.

“Hmph, get in kid, we’re about to leave. You should be extremely lucky that mother wasn’t as forgetful as you are.”

Ash could only chuckle as he heard that, he is really lucky to have a mother like that. Pikachu leapt to his shoulder while he struggled carrying his heavy luggage to the stairs to the ferry.

Another good thing that happened to him that there is still one room available for him to stay for the whole day trip to Alkia University, but the only problem is that the room is at the 3rd floor of the ship, but it was worth it.

After 10 minutes of climbing the stairs and resting every 5 successful steps, he had reached the 3rd floor. Wiping the sweat from his face, he proceeded to look for his room.

“Room 312, Room 312, Room 312.” He stared at the number on the key given to him and mumbled to himself over and over again as Pikachu walked alongside him with his head down sighing as Ash strolled along the rooms looking for the room with 312 imprinted on it.

Pikachu had been trying to get Ash to look at the ship’s map he found hanging by a wall for anyone who were lost, but to no avail. The search took almost forever.

“Oh, here it is, Room 312, finally.” He entered the room and placed his luggage beside the door, and leaped towards the bed, while Pikachu jumped to the pillow and curled himself and made himself comfortable. He stared at the clock on the endtable beside the bed and talked to Pikachu.

“It’s 8:25 and we’re already tired, right buddy?”

“Pika, pika.” He replied to his trainer.

Suddenly, a voice which came out of nowhere that startled Ash and Pikachu as they looked around the room where the voice came from.

“This is the S.S Chatot, our destination will be Alkia University. This will be a whole day trip, so please feel free to use our service and facilities to your heart’s content, I hope you can enjoy your stay here, and have a good day.”

Ash and Pikachu stared at the speaker that was placed on top of the door which they finally found, but instead of going out and trying what kind of services they have in store for them; he lied down on his back with both of his hands at the back of his head as he stared at the ceiling.

“After this nap…” Ash yawned, “Then we can explore the ship, right buddy?”

Pikachu nodded and also proceeded to sleep. Ash slowly closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.

The characters in this chapter is only Ash, Pikachu and his mom. But don't worry as I will introduce the other characters for the next few chapters. But expect a few of them appearing in the next chapter. So Read and Review.

Ash quickly woke up, and stared at the clock which showed 9:00, he was shocked that he woke earlier than expected since he usually wakes up 2 hours later when he takes naps. Sighing, he slowly carried himself up and looked at Pikachu who was still sleeping; he smiled at the sleeping Pikachu and stood up, and began doing his stretching exercises.

“Ahh, that feels good.” As he stretched his arms upwards, but upon saying that, Pikachu slowly opened his eyes, and yawned loudly.

“Chaa…”

“Oh, sorry about that Pikachu, did I wake you up?” But Pikachu simply shook his head and began to stretch his arms and legs.

Ash smiled and continued to stretch his muscles.

After the both of them finished stretching, they head outside, grabbed their room keys and locked the door. But after doing that, Ash suddenly stopped in his tracks and began to think deeply. Pikachu leapt to his shoulders and began to poke his master’s cheeks.

“Pikachu?”

“Ah, it’s nothing, Pikachu.” He chuckled, “It’s just this ship is so big I don’t know where we should start exploring.”

Then, Pikachu leapt from his shoulders and began to run, Ash wondered why he’d run off like that but he started to run after Pikachu. As they went to the stairs of the ship that goes to the 2nd floor, Pikachu stopped and pointed to the map he found the day before.

“Hey, there’s a map of every floor of the S.S. Chatot here. Why didn’t you tell me earlier, Pikachu?”

Pikachu only sighed and began to poke at the map, prompting Ash to look closer,

“Hey, they have a restaurant at the 2nd floor!” He quickly drooled, “C’mon, let’s start there buddy!” And then sprinted towards the stairs, Pikachu happily agreed as he ran after his hungry master.

“Whoa, the food smells so good!” Ash happily said as he opened the restaurant doors, and to his luck, it is an All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, and its free for upcoming students and transferees of the University. He quickly snatched a plate and began placing many kinds of food.

Pikachu quickly noticed a ketchup bottle at a vacant table and quickly sat and began to eat its contents. While, Ash was so busy grabbing all the food his stomach can take, he accidently bumped into someone he knew too familiar of.

“Hey, watch it you Idiot! I almost spilled my foo-“ A dark-haired boy said as he turned around to look at the annoying person that bumped into him only to see his eyes widen in surprise.

“Hey, its Ashy-boy. How’ve you been, buddy.”

“Oh, Gary is that you? You look… uh the same as always.” Ash was surprised.

“What was what you punk? Of course, I still look the same, it’s only been a few months since we last seen each other at Graduation you idiot!”

It was Gary all right, Ash’s best friend and one of his greatest rivals. But only Gary is one step ahead of him in any kind of games they’ve competed in.

Ash still couldn’t beat Gary even if he is one of the best trainers at their school. He had brown large spiky hair, and still wore his favorite purple sweater with a necklace with is shaped like Yin and Yang but its colored green and yellow. A navy blue pants and brown hiking boots that reached to his knees.

Upon staring at the mountain of food on Ash’s plate, Well, some things never change, do they… He thought to himself and chuckled. Since Ash is going to take a while longer, Gary proceeded to the vacant table where Pikachu was, and patted it on the head.

“Hey there, Pikachu, good to see you again.”

“Pika, Pikachu.” He replied as he put down the ketchup bottle to enjoy the warm and gentle touch of his touch while he’s rubbing its cheek as it cooed in delight.

He then stopped after a short while and proceeded to eat his meal. Ash came afterwards, and Gary wasn’t surprised that the mountain of food he saw earlier was bigger than before. He then grabbed a handkerchief and put it on his lap as he began to eat his humongous meal.

But before he was able to make his first bite, he heard a very familiar voice:

“Oh my sweetest princess, your radiant beauty has blinded my eyes- ” Wait a minute, that voice sounds too familiar, Ash looked around to see a man with spiky hair, weird looking eyes that appears to be closed all the time.
“- as I am forever lost by the shine of your love, as your prince in shining armor, I will be at your side as I – OWW! OWW! OWW!”

“Will you please stop that?! You’re embarrassing me in front of everyone in here.” A female figure suddenly came out of nowhere and pulled the ear of that man.

I looked closer as the figure slowly revealed her orange hair, her large emerald eyes, her yellow vest and matching shorts that only reached to her thighs, and yellow sneakers. The girl pulled his ear with only one hand as the man couldn’t resist the pain and had to follow her as she went away from the waitress who sighed in relief.

“Hey Brock! Misty!” Ash quickly stood up and ran after them, while Gary and Pikachu followed behind.

“Ash? Is that really you?” The girl turned around, released her tight grip to Brock’s ear and quickly ran towards him. The two hugged tightly, it has been two years since they last met but by the two of them, it seems like forever.

“Yeah I have, haven’t I?” He replied and looked to see Brock right in front of him smiling; he released the hug and approached and shook hands with him.

“Hey Brock, long time no see, buddy. You’re still flirting with girls I see.”

“Heh, same as always Ash, same as always.”

Brock released the handshake as he saw Pikachu running up to him and jumped to his strong arms while Gary trailing behind him.

“Hey, how’ve you been doing, Pikachu? You’re more energetic as ever.” He stroked his back while Pikachu licked his cheek.

“And good to see you again, Gary.” He extended his hand to Gary, who smiled and shook his hand with him, Misty also greeted Ash’s rival and friend.
But something is strange, what are those two doing in this ship? Ash couldn’t help but ask,

“Hey, I’ve been wondering, what are you two doing here?”

The two looked at each other and sighed.

“Uh, sorry Ash we forgot to tell you, but we’re students at Alkia University.” Brock said.

“Yeah, since summer break is almost over, we have to return to the university.” Misty added.

“So, we can see each other again, just like old times right?” Ash happily said as the two agreed in unison.

“And the two of you will enroll there, right?” Ash and Gary nodded.

“Well, when we get there, why don’t we give you the grand tour in this awesome university.” Brock proposed to the two in which they immediately accepted the kind offer.

But Ash’s stomach had to growl, reminding him that he still hasn’t eaten yet as he blushed in embarrassment as the three including Pikachu laughed at him.

“Hehe, I still haven’t eaten yet so why don’t you guys join me?” Ash asked to his two older friends.

“Sure thing, we haven’t eaten yet either since Brock had to get distracted by every girl we pass by on our way here.” Misty said leaving Brock embarrassed at himself.

“Hey, I know what we can do after this!” Misty quickly said.

“Well then, what is it?” Gary asked.

“I’ll tell you guys later, why don’t we eat first?” The three agreed and headed to Ash and Gary’s table.

Misty led the gang inside the hull of the ship; they looked around and noticed that the walls, the ceilings, and floors were reinforced with titanium metals.

“They told me that they made the entire hull to be ‘indestructible’ in case for any accidents that may happen in here.” Misty grinned as she said that.

The gang walked for few minutes until they stopped to see a giant glass door with rubber cushions at the edges of the glass so the noise will not be heard outside which may disturb the other passengers.

“Here we are, you guys. Just behind this door is the ‘Battlefield’.” <Catchy Name>

Ash hurriedly pushed the doors and as he pushed, he could hear faint cries and shouts entering his ear.

The gang went inside the ‘Battlefield, but all they could see was a Nurse Joy which Brock immediately went love-struck over her, and a few trainers who were with their pokemons, some of them were resting while others were bandaged up, it would seem they had an intense battle.

“This is a mini-Pokemon Center you guys.” Misty told them as she extended her arm and pointed to a passage-way beside the counter. “That, is where we’ll be going.”

“Oh I see, so this place is where trainers can treat their pokemons after battles right?” Gary said with his hand on his chin.

Ash couldn’t help but overhear a conversation made by three trainers who sat at a bench.

“Man, that guy is unbeatable.”

“Yeah not even those upperclassmen could beat his pokemon. And to think he’s only an upcoming freshman here.”

“I hear he already has a winning streak of 8 and counting. Man, that Kirlia of his must be a pretty high level pokemon, its not even fully evolved.”

“Dude, if that Kirlia does evolve, he might be the strongest trainer alive, heck he can even beat the Pokemon League with only one pokemon.”
Ash was getting pretty curious and excited about his unbeatable trainer that the three were talking about, he approached the three and had to ask,

“Excuse me, but what about this ‘unbeatable’ trainer? Is he really that strong? If it is, I want to challenge him.”

The gang went inside the stadium with their new friend, Harrison. The gang was shocked to see what the ‘Battlefield’ really looks like, it was really big. Trainers and Coordinators everywhere. As they were sightseeing, Ash noticed 4 battle arenas on their left and asked Harrison.

“That’s the Trainer’s Arena.” Harrison pointed to the four arenas. “This is where trainers test their skills against one another. Not only to kill time but improve on their strategies and such.”

And then, he pointed to the 4 battle arenas on their right.

“That’s the Coordinator’s Arena.” Harrison said. “This is where coordinators try to appeal by countering the moves of their opponents with one of their own.”

Harrison also added. “Oh yeah, the rules in these Coordinator battles, is that each coordinator are given five tokens, if their moves get countered, they lose a token, and if any trainer that loses all of their tokens first will be defeated. Unlike, there at Trainer’s Arena, its only a 1 on 1 battle and the victory will be declared via knockout or forfeit.”

“Wow, the rules of a Coordinator match are really complicated.”

“Good thing you chose to be a trainer, right Ash?”

“Shut up, Gary.”

“Are they always like that?” Harrison whispered to Misty.

“Yeah, they always fight and argue at the littlest things.”

The gang made their way through crowds until they reached the arena where the ‘Unbeatable’ trainer is at.

“Anyone else?” The trainer shouted. He is wearing a white jacket with a hood covering his face except for his nose and mouth. His Kirlia stood ready for battle.

Everyone whispered among themselves who would take him on, but most of them backed off. Fearing that the results in this match would always be the same for them.

“I will!” Ash quickly ran towards the arena and entered the empty trainer’s stand and looking at the hooded trainer with determination.

Everyone was shocked to see the cocky trainer and began whispering to themselves. Some were even mocking him. Ash ignored all of them, for his mind is only set on beating the hooded trainer and win.

“Well then, this will be my tenth.” The hooded trainer grinned.

“Or this is where your… uh winning streak ends.” Ash retaliated with a lame comeback.

“Enough talk, let’s battle.”

“Sure thing, Pikachu I choose you!” He called Pikachu as he leapt from Ash’s shoulders and into the Battle Arena, as sparks rose from his cheeks. The hooded trainer only smirked.

“Well then, this will be a 1-on-1 battle as always, no time limits and the match is over if either of the pokemons are unable to battle or forfeits.” A referee came and raised his green and red flags, pointing to the two trainers.

“Although we all already know who the victor is.” He mumbled to himself.